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The Free Community Information website - Free to view and Free to upload your listings. View our entire database of Clubs and Societies, Trades Listings, What’s On Diary, Restauarants, Reviews and articles, Schools, Holidays Tides, Useful Numbers and more... CLUBS AND SOCIETIES AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Offer support and understanding to families / friends of problem drinkers. Meetings are always confidential. For local meetings visit www.al-anonuk.org.uk or call 020 7403 0888 BANFF, MORAY & NAIRN CANINE CLUB Classes in obedience and ringcraft on Monday evenings during school terms at 6:30pm in Spynie Hall, Elgin. Contact Margaret on 01343 542070 or Mary on 01542 850262. BIRNIE INDOOR BOWLING CLUB Come and play on our excellent carpets and enjoy good company. Playing on Monday and Thursday 7pm. Contact Charles Stewart: 543307 BUCCANEER THEATRE CLUB Club nights are Monday, 7pm at RAF Lossiemouth. New members interested in both onstage and back-stage activities welcome. For more info call Chris on 07789 552968 or Ally on 07887 513915. CHEST HEART & STROKE

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SCOTLAND Meets fortnightly on Fridays from 10am - 12 noon at the Moray Resource Centre, Elgin. A new community stroke group to provide the opportunity for those who have had a stroke and their carers to meet up for lively company and activities that aid recovery. To attend or to volunteer please contact Caroline Peter 07918 674481 DALLAS PARENT & TODDLERS Every Monday, 2pm - 4pm at Dallas Hall. Come join us for a cuppa & play. Contact Susan 01343 890439 / Emma 01343 890479 or find us on Facebook. ELGIN AMATEUR ATHLETICS CLUB Coaching in running, jumps, throws, field and track athletics. Ages 9 + Morriston Playing Field Apr - Oct and East End Primary Nov - Mar. Tuesdays & Thursdays 7pm-8.30pm. Membership fee + £1 a session. Contact Mr M Archibald 540201 ELGIN BRIDGE CLUB Mon - Fri, Elgin Bridge Centre, 1 Academy Street, Elgin. Contact Margaret on 549032 or Graham on 830638 or visit us at www.theelginbridgecentre.co.uk ELGIN MODEL RAILWAY CLUB Tuesday and Thursday 7pm 9.30pm. Juniors (12 - 16 yrs) on a Sunday 2pm - 4pm. Novice or experienced modellers welcome. Contact enquiries@elginmodel railwayclub.co.uk FOCHABERS MEN’S SHED Meets at the Fochabers Institute, right opposite the bus stop for 35 & 10 buses, every Wednesday & Thursday 10am 2pm. Facilities for woodworking, leatherworking, computer skills & anything else that interests you. for more info contaact Chris Ritchie (Secretary) on 07814 014349 or visit www.moray GARMOUTH & KINGSTON ART GROUP Alternate Thursdays from 2pm 4pm in Garmouth Hall. New members welcome. Contact

MORAY TABLE TENNIS CLUB Meets during termtime only at Elgin Academy, 5.30pm 6.30pm. Coached by International umpire, Ken Kennedy and Commonwealth medallist, Stephen Gertsen. Age 8yrs & upwards. £4. For info email Stephen Gertsen on stephengertsen@hotmail.co.uk

Trish Bingham on 01343 870267 for more details. INVERNESS FIELD ARCHERY CLUB Available to interested parties wishing to take up archery and are located in Nairn, Forres, Elgin and all surrounding areas. Contact Secretary, Gerry Parks on 01667 462219 (evenings) or 07801 593 637. Visit invernessfieldarcheryclub.webed en.co.uk JOG SCOTLAND ELGIN Thursdays, 6pm at Elgin Library during winter months and Cricket Pavilion during summer months. Beginners to advanced joggers welcome. New members please arrive at 5:45pm. For details email jselgin@walkjogrunmoray.org.uk LOSSIE FOLK CLUB Meets every Tuesday at 8.30pm in the Beach Bar, Lossiemouth MORAY ADVANCE MOTORISTS & MOTORCYCLISTS Reg. Scottish Charity SC 033561 visit www.morayiam.org.uk or call 01309 673954 MORAY CARERS CHOIR Every Monday from 11am - 1pm at St Giles church hall, Elgin. £4 per session. For carers who love to sing. For more information call 01542 850441 or email moraycarerschoir@gmail.com MORAY OSTOMATES 1st Saturday of every month until December, 1pm - 3pm at Moray Resource Centre, Elgin. Come along for a cup of tea and a chat. Phone Meggie on 01343 552449 or Kathleen on 01343 821628 MORAY SOCIAL SCRIBE SERVICES Thursday 27th August, 6.30pm in the HUB at Moray College. A service for people who find it difficult to write that all important letter. Looking for committee members and volunteer scribes. All welcome if interested. For more info email moraysocial scribeservice@gmail.com

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SCOTTISH STUDIES Every fourth Thursday (not July) 2pm - 4pm in Elgin Community Centre. Talks on Scottish history, culture and current affairs. For more information call 01343 810997 or 0784914668 or email: scottishstudies953@gmail.com SPYNIE VILLAGE HALL Available for private parties & functions with a beautiful outdoor space as well as a new fully equipped kitchen. Full disabled access & facilities. For info call 07908 583320, visit spynie.org, facebook page : Spynie village hall or email chair@spynie.org STEP BY STEP IN MORAY Toddler groups for isolated and vulnerable families. Tuesdays 10am-11:30am, 1pm-2:30pm and on Fridays 10am-11:30am. Meets at Elgin Youth Cafe. Tel: Margaret 07583 835681. T-EXCHANGE MAKERSPACE Make things, build things and exchange ideas. Third Friday of every month 7:30pm at Findhorn Village Centre. Details on www.t-exchange.net or contact Bill on 07925 551191. THE HANDYPERSON SERVICE (MORAY) Provides help around the home incl. small repairs, decluttering and toe-nail cutting. We also provide short term assistance for those unwell or just out of hospital. Call 01343 559739. PLEASE NOTE Details of Clubs & Societies are published on a rotational basis. If you would like your details to be included in this section please email linda@spotlighton.co.uk

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returned home to God. We light candles in church in their memory. We sing: we cry; we give thanks for what they have given us during their lives, and the light of the candles reminds us of our hope of all being reunited in Jesus, at the ends of our lives.Then on the 11th November Remembrance Day, and Remembrance Sunday (13th November), we remember the fallen from WW1 & WW2, who gave their todays, so that you and I could enjoy what would have been their tomorrow. Amongst all this remembering, there is something that remains a constant. It is something that comforts us during the dark moments in our lives, and is perhaps forgotten during the good times. People often laugh at Christians because of their sacrificial love and forgiveness (sometimes we fail miserably) but we try to be like Jesus. In the hard world in which we live there doesn’t seem to be much room for love. Perhaps the poem by R.V.Bailey called Familiar tells us why: Love is a damaged thing, trailing absurd, Forlorn and pathetic as a dressing-gown cord.Intimate breath, loyal as a shadow, close as a cry,

On the 2nd November we keep the Feast Nothing will shake it off. Nor should you try. of All Souls. On this day we remember those whom we have loved and have To love, is to be seen to be weak. To

Moray Coast Baptist Church (Lossiemouth) Sunday services at 10:30am. Thursday night Bible study at 7pm. Crèche available for each service. Call 07862 898939 for more information, or visit www.moraycoastbc.com. Pastor Donald Clough Moray Grace Fellowship The Warehouse Theatre, Lossie. Sundays 10.30am. Call Vic Cameron: 07738 260550 Email: vic.cameron2803@btinternet.com • www.moraygrace.wordpress.com Parish of Duffus, Spynie and Hopeman First Sunday of the month, united service 10.30am. On other Sundays, services are 10am at Hopeman and 11.30am at Duffus or Spynie. Call Rev. Jenny Adams on 01343 830276. www.duffusparish.co.uk St Andrews-Lhanbryd and Urquhart Parish Church Sundays 11am including young church and crèche. Evening services 7pm on last Sunday of month at St Margaret's Hall, Urquhart. St Gerardine’s High Church Lossiemouth. Sunday family worship 11am. Contact Rev. G McKee 01343 208852 (manse). St Giles and St Columba’s South Elgin. All Sunday services start at 10.30am and will be held in St Giles, High Street, Elgin

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forgive is laughable (in this world). Yet, this is Jesus’ example to you and me. Our world desperately needs love: needs forgiveness. It is so easy to hit back… To be sarcastic… The hardest thing to do is ‘turn the other cheek’ (Matt 5:39). Yet, that is what we must do if we want a better world to live in: Jesus has shown us ‘The Way’. In all our remembering of friends, lovers, saints, families (down through the years) the one constant has been Jesus’ love for them, and for you and me. As we approach the darkest time of the year, let us remember those candles of Hope on the Feast of All Souls. May their light burn as a beacon of love guiding us towards the Advent of the coming of God’s Son. When pain will be no more. There will be no more suffering. All will be healed in the Love of God’s Son Jesus Christ. That is why we rejoice in the words: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8. May God continue to Bless you in all you do. Canon Christopher Ketley Rector of Holy Trinity, Elgin & St. Margaret’s, Lossiemouth

during July, September and November. Services will also be held in St Columba’s South Church, Duff Avenue, Elgin during August, October and December 2016. For further information please contact the Church Office on 01343 551501 or via email at stgileselgin@gmail.com You can also visit our website at www.elginstgileschurch.co.uk St James Church of Scotland Lossiemouth. Sunday worship 10am including crèche and Sunday school. 6pm: evening service . 7pm: Hands & Feet youth group. Contact Rev. Geoff McKee 01343 208852 St Margaret’s Church Lossiemouth. Sunday 9.30am: family Eucharist . Thursdays 10am: Holy Communion. Thursdays 5pm: evening prayer. St Sylvester's Catholic Church Elgin. Vigil Mass Saturday 7pm. Sunday Mass 11.45am. Tel: 01343 542280. Listed from M to S and regularly rotated. If you are a member of alisted here and would like to be considered for inclusion or to amend any details please email linda@winterburnmedia.co.uk

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I’m delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to this edition of Spotlight as one of your regional MSPs. I was elected in May and cover the entire Highlands and Islands region which includes Moray. Tea in the Park at Glenlivet Hall was one of my highlights this summer. Every day through August you could get an excellent lunch or tea and cakes made by the volunteers with all the proceeds spent locally. The day we went, there was a large group in, so the only tables left were outside. My peanut and broccoli soup was outstanding and made all the better by eating it al fresco in Speyside! I hope whatever you did over the summer you had a good time. Now we’re well into the autumn, the few days of sunshine we had are a distant memory!

I recently had the great pleasure of meeting organisers and runners at the weekly Elgin Parkrun to mark the 12th Anniversary of the parkrun movement. Hundreds of parkruns take place around the world and in Elgin alone over 100 volunteers help to make it work for the now well over 1,000 people who have taken part. It is a fantastic way for folk to improve their fitness with like minded people with feeling selfconscious and meeting other folk. " T here are walkers, joggers and runners taking part with the aim being improved health and wellbeing. A great initiative right on our doorstep….and it’s completely free to join in! Check it out online at: www.parkrun.org.uk/elgin .

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visit eastgrange.co.uk. a halloween ball in the hall in aid of logan's fund 7pm - 12am, lossiemouth town hall. adults £5, children £3. open to all ages but u18s must be accompanied by an adult. themed buffet, disco, fancy dress, etc mad ferret with resurrection (stone roses tribute) 7.30pm at elgin city football club social club. tickets from sound & vision or skiddle.com/e/12790973. an evening of burlesque 7pm@the ironworks,.£20 over 18s. visit ironworksvenue.com. an evening of burlesque 7pm@the ironworks,.£20 over 18s. visit ironworksvenue.com.

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“battle of the somme” - special screening of 1916 film by the w.f.a. *& film forres 6pm (doors open) at forres town hall. music by laura rossi. wwi songs by kinloss military wives’ choir. entry by donation & proceeds to service charities. contact derek bird on 01343 876562 or derek.bird876@gmail.com. "observing uranus and neptune" - speaker: mike lunan of the caithness astronomy group. 7pm for 7.30pm, birnie village hall, thornhill, elgin.nonmembers welcome. refreshments (for a small donation). contact: stan barber at stan@sigmaastro.co.uk. visit sigma-astro.co.uk clochan community centre quiz night 7pm for 7.30pm, £3.50. all welcome. refreshments.

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14 monday 7 monday moray field club: agm & a talk on "trees for life" by alan watson featherstone 7pm for agm at lounge, elgin town hall. non-members welcome to attend talk at 7.45pm. for info call 01309 676884.

8 tuesday greyfriars club: tea & competitions 6.30pm (doors open), elgin town hall. elgin flower club: "lancashire woodland walks" speaker - derek morgan, morecambe 7.30pm, elgin high church hall. visitors £4. contact:davina farquhar 07817-157216/ b & s local history group: "the knight's story" 7.30pm, rothiemurchus tennis clubhouse. free. all welcome.

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